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What you will learn!!How and why tornadoes occurHow strong tornadoes can be

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Who is this for? Grades 3-5 with minimum prior knowledge of tornadoes, in the classroom.HOME Slide

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How are the student’s going to be working?•As a class, or in small groups.•In the classroom, on the computers.•Group work, as a class, or in discussion.

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Objectives After the students view the PowerPoint, they will be able to recognize the causes of tornadoes, and how powerful they can be. The students will take a quiz at the end of the PowerPoint to test their knowledge and understanding of the lesson. Student’s will need to score a 10 out of 10 (100%) on the quiz in order to pass.HOME Slide

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Today, students, you are going to use the computers to gothrough a PowerPoint about tornadoes. After you complete thePowerPoint, you will then take a 10 question quiz over thematerial presented in the PowerPoint.

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1. Air starts to rotate when the wind is at 2 differentaltitudes, blowing at different speeds.2. Faster spins (rotates) make a funnel cloud.3. The funnel cloud rotates and touches down. Rain and hail fromthe storm makes the funnel touch the ground.1 2 3

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“F-4 to F-5 tornadoes have the strength to pick up and carryentire buildings an entire distance, toss steal beams, andcrunch cars. These tornadoes are very rare but are responsiblefor 2/3 of tornado deaths in the United States every year.”

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NEAT FACTS!!!!1. They can go 300mph!2. Their damage paths can be one mile wide, and up to 50 miles long.3. Each year on average 1000 tornadoes occur!4. We are safer in a room with no windows when a tornado occurs.5. The sound of a tornado siren (click on the siren icon) Siren

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Now that you have learned all about tornadoes and whythey occur, you now can go home and tell your familieswhat you should do if a tornado occurs. You can tell themwhy they occur and how dangerous they can be.